Combination check



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Patented ay 13, 1,924.

TED STATES FRANK ZGOL AND SYLVESTER KOZLIK, OF SANDOVAL, ILLINOIS.

COMBINATION CHECK.

Application filed September 6, 1921. Serial No. 498,815.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK ZGOL and SYLVESTER KOZLIK, citizens of Poland and of the United States of America, respectively, and residents of Sandoval, in the county of Marion, State of Illinois, have invented cer- Various systems have been employed in mines in the tioned above, tirely successful, and present invention is to past to keep the records menut none of them have been enthe urpose of the pro uce a combination check whereby an accurate record of the work may be kept so that when the mined coal reaches he surface after passing through the hands of several workmen, these workmen will receive credit for their work.

Fig. I is a erspective of one of our check said ook being open to show the faces of several of the checks therein.

Fig. 11 is a face view of one of our improved checks.

In the drawings, book wherein are improved checks 1. Each of these checks 1 comprise a strip of comparatively heavy paper having transverse lines of perforations 2, whereby said strip is divided into a stub 3 and a pair of tags 4-. and 5. The stubs 3, it will be observed, are bound in book form and will be held together as a permanent record after the tags/l: and 5 have been removed therefrom.

The tag 4 and the tag 5 of each strip are each provided with an aperture 6, the purpose of which will be subsequently pointed out.

Each stub 3 is printed with numbers from 1 to 31, one for each day of the month, and each of said numbers is preferably enclosed within a small square. Thepurpose of these A designates a check numbers will be subsequently pointed out, it being sufiicient to say the miners record of the here that the stub is work he has done bound a number of our and remains in his hands, and that the numbers just mentioned are marked or punched to indicate the day on which a certain tram load of coal was mined.

All of the strips in a single check book are consecutively numbered, the numbers appearing in three places on each strip. It will. be observed by referring to Fig. I that the stub 3 and the tags 1 and 5 of the first check have Turn 1 printed on their faces, and that Turn 2 is printed on the stub and ta s of the record check, this being continued throughout the book. Each stub and tag in the book also has printed on its face the number of the miner in whose hands the book is. i

The operation of our improved system is as follows:

To begin, a loader or digger known as miner 93, for instance, will at the beginning of the two weeks or months period receive check book 93 wherein all of the stubs and tags are printed with his number. After he has loaded his first tram or completed his first turn, as it is spoken of in the mine, he tears off the tags 4 and 5 of the first check and hangs them on a hook provided for that purpose on the tram. When the tram driver comes to take the tram away, the loader or digger hands him his check'book and the driver punches the stub thereof in the square that contains the number corresponding to the day on which the turn was completed; if for instance the work was done on the 15th day of the month, the squarethat contains the number 15 would be punched. The driver will then tear the tag 5 oil of the tag 4, and will retain the tag 5 as his record. The tram is now drawn to the hoist and carried to the surface where a clerk removes the tag from the car and gives miner 93 credit for 1 turn.

By this system a triple check is obtained which makes it very unlikely that a mistake will occur. Assuming, for instance, that the tag 4 which goes with the tram is lostfrom said tram, as a result of which the clerk on the surface would not know to whom to give credit for said tram, when the book of the clerk was checked against the miners check book .and the drivers tags it would be discovered that the miner had punches for 5 trams (for example) in his check book and that the driver had turned in 5 tags bearing the number of miner 93, hence as miner 93 had received credit for but 4 trams in the clerks book it would be apparent that he had mined the untagged tramload of coal.

It is obvious that it. would be equally as simple to trace the discrepancy where the driver had neglected to punch the stub in the miners check book, or where the driver had lost one of his tags.

To increase the eiticiency of the system all of the miners in the territory of a certain driver will begin work at the beginning of a work shift on a turn which bears the same munber. For instance, an average dayswork is tive turns; however one miner works more slowly than the others and completes but four turns, hence at the begin ning of the second day the driver will tear from the book of the last mentioned miner and destroy the tags and 5 of the check marked Turn 5 but will not punch the stub of said check. consequently inasmuch as the stub is not punched and the tag 4: does not get to the clerk on the surface, said miner does not get credit for a turn and all of the miners will begin work on turn 6. Also, if a miner misses a day's work, when said miner returns to work the driver will tear from his book a number of checks corresponding to the number of turns completed in his absence. Thus, it all of the miners are working on turn 8 and an untagged tram is brought up said tram will probably belong to the miner whose tags jump from 7 to 9, thereby simplifying the task of locating lost trams.

The apertures (3 in the tags 4 and 5 are provided to enable the tag 4 on a hook carried by the tram and the tag5 on a hook provided for the reception of said tags at a convenient place in the mine.

\Ve claim:

A checking system comprising a plurality of stripsot material. each of which coinprises a stub and a pair oi detachable tags. said strips being consecutively said stub and each of said tags of each strip having the number of the strip of which it forms a part indicated thereon, and each stub and each tag of each strip bearing the number of the person who issued said tag.

the stubs of said plurality of strips being permanently bound together to constitute a permanent record and each stub of each strip having numbers thereon corresponding to the days of the month whereby said stub may be punched to designate the day on which said tags were. issued and each of said tags being provided with an aperture termed therethrough.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we hereunto altix our signatures. FRANK ZGOL. SYLVESTER KOZLIK.

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